Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-04-01

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Pacific Railroad than has ever been
known, and is increasing every day.
Four thousand sacks of rice or seven
car loads from Victoria, with two Car
loads of Puget Sound salmon were
sent to Portland the other day in ad-
dition to $50 barrels of lime from Roche
Harbor.
The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of
this Territory will convene in Tacoma
ON May 10th. The various lodges OF
that city have appointed committees
who are preparing for the proper re.
ception of the delegates who will be
there, and also for entertaining them
with an excursion to some point on
the bay, or with a grand clam bake, or
some kindred recreation.
Bachelors in the neighborhood of
Custer, Whatcom county, are evident
ly at a discount. Mr.. ]. A. Barker,
near Custer, offers to sell 80 acres of
his land to man with a family for
500 less than he will sell to bache-
lor. He agrees, however, in the event
that the purchaser is bachelor, to
refund to him $1OO provided he will
marry within one year from the date
of purchase.
Port Townsend Argus: "There are
two kinds of men for which growing,
thriving town has no use. The one is
the man who is always crying down
real estate and declares that, however
reasonable price may be: cit is too
high 1t isn't worth it, etc. The
other is the one who gets hold of the
very best real estate and putting a
fanciful value on it holds it from all
purchasers, waiting for the big
raise"
John F. Rice, who lives ON q farm
about twelve miles northeast of Ia
coma, along the shore of the Sound,
was Sunday, at II o'clock A. NJ, acci-
dentally shot and killed. 1t seems
that Rice and his brother-in-law, L. T.
Shaw, Jr., were out hunting when the
latter sighting some game, raised the
hammer of his gun, and in passing
around a tree in some manner acci-
dentally discharged the weapon, the
contents striking Rice in the head
just back of the right ear, tearing his
skull to pieces.
Vancouver Register: " A good town
is one in which the farmer spends his
money with the home merchant, the
laborers spend the money they earn
with their local tradesmen, where the
feeling and good will of every citizen
is in sympathy with home industries,
and where every article, that can be,
is bought of the local dealers or manu-
facturers. This spirit of reciprocity
between business men and merchants,
tradesmen and laborers, farmers and
all, makes business lively, the town
prosper and grow, and above all, is a
pleasant place in which to live"
The cowboys of Eastern Washington
have language of their own which no
tenderfoot" may attain unto until he
has served his novitiate. They call q
horse herder a horse wrangler," and
horse breaker a " broncho buster"
Their steed is often a cayuse," and
to dress well is to " rag proper" When
a cowboy goes out on the prairie he
hits the fiat" Whiskey is "family
disturbance" and to eat is to " chew"
His hat is a /" cady," /" his whip q " quirt,"
his rubber coat slicker," his leather
overalls are chaps" or " "chapperals," !"
and his revolver is "45." Bacon is
overland trout" and unbranded cat
| tie are mavericks"
Oysterville Journal: A vein of coal
four feet thick has been exposed to
view by the recent sliding of bank
on land owned by G. F. Scott, on Mill
creek. What it may develop upon
being farther prospected into the hill,
is yet to be proven, which we hope
will be accomplished in the near fu-
ture. If coal be found in abundance,
with our supply of timber and our
good farming lands, what will deter
Pacific county from coming to the
front and being one of the most pro-
ductive counties in the territory?
Nothing, that we know of, but the
lack of enterprise.
A Yakima Signal reporter made q
trip of observation to Ezra Meeker's
Territorial picnic grounds, at the Sum-
nit of the Stampede Pass, and says
they won't do unless the picnicers
"come well prepared with galoshes
and rubber outer and underclothes, as
well as a good supply of red flannel
neck bandages, goose oil and grand
mothers cough medicine" The Sig
nal man says: Leave its solitude to
the handy mountaineer and prospec-
tor, and choose, rather, the shores Of
the beautiful Kichelas lake, the hot
springs of the west side, or one of the
many attractive spots midst the pines
of Sunday creek as fitting sounding
ground for freedoms voice."
The Government telegraph line be.
tween Port Angeles and Tatoosh Isl
and, upon which Cape Flattery light.
house il located, has been discOntin.